Set on a rugged Arctic island off Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the ultimate global safety net for food security. It's able to protect up to 2.25 billion seeds from even "doomsday" scenarios like asteroid impacts.
Set on a rugged Arctic island off Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the ultimate global safety net for food security. It's able to protect up to 2.25 billion seeds from even "doomsday" scenarios like asteroid impacts.
Set on a rugged Arctic island off Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the ultimate global safety net for food security. It's able to protect up to 2.25 billion seeds from even "doomsday" scenarios like asteroid impacts.
NASA will fly the International Space Station until 2020. It will also begin developing a rocket for deep-space exploration, ventures that will include trips to asteroids and, eventually, Mars.
NASA will fly the International Space Station until 2020. It will also begin developing a rocket for deep-space exploration, ventures that will include trips to asteroids and, eventually, Mars.
NASA will fly the International Space Station until 2020. It will also begin developing a rocket for deep-space exploration, ventures that will include trips to asteroids and, eventually, Mars.
The Geminids, an annual meteor shower brought on by the asteroid 3200 Phaethon, feature peak rates of up to 30-40 meteors per hour, a dazzling display for sky-watchers.
Trojan asteroids are objects that exist in gravitationally stable regions in front of or behind another body. The asteroid shares the same orbit with Earth, but the two will never collide.
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, MA determined that two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, would pass the Earth on September 8th.